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Report: Rand Paul Copied Sections of 2013 Book from Think Tank Study

by Evan McMurry

According to a new post by Buzzfeed, a section of Senator Rand Paul's (R-KY) book Government Bullies was lifted word-for-word from a Heritage Foundation study, the latest in a series of plagiarism accusations that are suddenly dogging the Kentucky Senator.

BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski wrote that

1,318 words of Rand’s 2013 publication were taken verbatim from a 2003 study by the political think tank. 
Heritage is attributed as the source of the information in the footnotes, but not cited as the source of the actual text in the book. In addition, later passages were similar to a Cato Institute report, Kaczynski reported.

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